Research Article

Shear Bond Strength of Three Orthodontic Bonding Systems on Enamel and Restorative Materials

Table 3

The Kruskal–Wallis test showed highly significant to nonsignificant differences in shear bond strength (SBS) and adhesive remnant index (ARI) in the three groups.

Surface materialSBSARI

EnamelChi-square test18.51211.686
Df22
Asymptotic significance0.0000.003

SR AdoroChi-square test0.2811.636
Df22
Asymptotic significance0.8690.441

Filtek Supreme XTEChi-square test20.84714.017
Df22
Asymptotic significance0.0000.001

WisilChi-square test6.9706.444
Df22
Asymptotic significance0.0310.040

DispersalloyChi-square test9.2236.691
Df22
Asymptotic significance0.0100.035

HeradorChi-square test3.5838.561
Df22
Asymptotic significance0.1670.014

e.max PressChi-square test23.08611.600
Df22
Asymptotic significance0.0000.003

ZirCADChi-square test16.42315.612
Df22
Asymptotic significance0.0000.000

Mark IIChi-square test9.76219.815
Df22
Asymptotic significance0.0080.000

Df: degrees of freedom (statistics).